Lewis Hamilton came to Italy on Thursday and invoked his equivalent of “Rome was not built in a day”. He asked Ferrari his fortune to be tried for a few years.
The need for patience was a distant thought when it was revealed in February with a cape for the photo shoot in Maranello, the savior of 60 million pounds sterling on a mission.
The fans asked for a first observation of him on a bridge on the Fiorano test track that week and he arrived in Melbourne for the opening race with a smile as wide as the city’s Port Phillip bay.
Cut in the last round in Miami and the last episode of the harsh reality, which presented its sarcastic radio remarks to the dithering scuderia that they should take a tea break while you are ”.
They were not comments likely to create the favor of his garage infantrymen. But they and the local disturbances caused, as well as its own trembling form, are hardly the most urgent concerns at the door of Ferrari.
The major problem is that they have designed a failure of a car.
Lewis Hamilton has endured a difficult start to life in Ferrari since he joined this season
It is far from the excitement of his point of view of sound and fans when he signed
Hamilton’s sarcastic comments towards his Ferrari team have been common this season
This is not the scenario that Hamilton would have written for himself this weekend, his first race in Italy behind the wheel of a Ferrari. He will get a delighted reception, the tifosi wishing him the best chances, and it is a kind of consolation. But the faithful, he insists, must give time to the project.
“I do not judge our success by a short quantity of race, half a season, a season,” said Hamilton.
“Let’s talk at the end of my career here in Ferrari, at the end of a few years, and see what we have done. This is when we can look back and say if we succeeded or not.
“These few months are cobblestones to the place where we are going, and that’s it.
“We have a few bits here this weekend which, hopefully, will be able to improve the car. I hope.
“In the end, it comes down to the self -confidence you have, and it’s just a mentality. I am far from perfect. I really believe that every day I can do better. I can try stronger and, if I fail, I try again.
“When it becomes low, I have tools that I use. I don’t really listen to it all. There are so many rumors, so many people who make assumptions, comments, judgments – 99% of them do not know what’s going on.
“Probably 100% do not know what I experienced to get to where I am today.”
Mail Sport understands that morale is low among the Ferrari team, according to a source in Italy
Hamilton called for patience and urged people to judge him at the end of his Ferrari contract
Hamilton can make personal help from the lightning of his former me even in his annoying time in Scarlet.
His victory in the sprint in China represented two of his exceptional skills, the first more than one tour (he took the post) and his ability to keep his rubber alive with a Talent of Tyre-Whisper.
It was also a wonder to take up the minds of a team on the section of his career, by his example as much as anything else.
And, God, Ferrari needs this tonic now. The morale is low, according to a source in Italy with his ear on the wall.
But he must first keep his own mind. He said, “I often have to remember that I have won seven titles; I won more than any other driver in history; I did great things.
“Although things are not always great, they improve if you believe and continue to push.
“There is no shortage of enthusiasm or talent in this team. I really think we are going to get there at some point. We just have to be patient.
How the patient can be the problem.
Hamilton showed flashes of his former self with his impressive Sprint victory in Miami this month
Antonelli’s fan club shows its support
A young tribe had lunch at the Mercedes motorhome and then meandered Imola Paddock’s wide eyes. Average age 18.
It is the friends of the School of Kimi Antonelli, the teenager born in Bologna who carries his initiation as a light prodigy lightly.
Remarkably, he still studies for his exams, receiving online equipment to keep it at speed. Its maturity – equivalent to levels A – is looming.
“I guess he is on review leave now,” smiles an “older boy” in Mercedes.
A group of friends from the Kimi Antonelli school is present in Imola to support the prodigy
Hamilton SNR links to the FIA
Anthony Hamilton is newly in harassment with Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the president of the FIA disparaged by his son Lewis.
But Hamilton SNR told me that his role was in no way political before Ben Sulayem in research (subject to confirmation) a second term later this year.
“I can’t wait to work with FIA to share my Karting experiences at F1 and I hope I can help transform the dreams of young drivers in reality,” said Hamilton SNR.
Its involvement, as reported in Times, is limited to the development path of young FIA drivers.
Only a few minutes before this development was revealed, Hamilton Jr had described the organization led by Ben Sulayem a “piece of mess”.
One wonders how the anthony-mommed collaboration will be addressed in the next father conflab.
Anthony Hamilton, Lewis’s father, works with the young FIA driver development path
Lewis has already criticized the president of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem and his organization
A difficult start for Alonso
The Statistics of the season comes from Aston Martin after six races. Lance Stroll 14 points, Fernando Alonso 0.
Could it be goodbye to Imola?
Imola is redolor of history and romance. This is what we could call the old school. A classic track. Drivers love it.
It is secreted among vineyards and peaches. And what is served on the plate is up to par because the Emilia-Romagna region is the cuisine of Italy.
Pognant, a small inclined to the doors of Autodromo is the bronze statue of Ayrton Senna, who died right there in Tamburello Curve. The flowers are on his lap.
But this year’s publishing in Imola may have been the last for a while. The current contract is exhausted when the checkered flag is folded on Sunday.
Stefano Domenicali, CEO of F1, is partial for the place because it is here that he worked in sport for the first time. Born nearby, he directed traffic in parking lots as a boy. He semi -sisted Bernie Ecclestone at his bout.
But declares that two races in Italy is one too much. He may be right. And, from a racing point of view, the cars are too large to serve a reliable humbinger, even if the fighters themselves love the thrill.
The truth is that there are greater accommodation costs to harvest elsewhere in the world. This is the essential for Liberty Media, the insatiable American owners of sport, and how could we expect the feeling little, Imola.
The best of its defenders can hope is that it is part of a rotation with other European places. It is in the spirit of Domenicali, I am told, but I doubt that it is at the top of his game.
